Since I've got a 12vdc circuit in my house...

I've been thinking about this for a long time and now I have the time to do it.

Back in the old days, people would use wind chargers like this to do various task; sometimes charging a battery for light in the evening.

Well, one of my friends has a small manufacturing business making carbon-composite components for wire industry machines. Anyway, I've helped him a lot and he lets me play if I want to test out an idea.

So I designed/came up with a method to make a carbon blade for a "small wind charger" (I'm thinking a single blade about 14 feet in diameter; w/ a 2" aluminum spare in it). Sounds big but it'll be really easy to handle since it won't have a lot of mass.

Also, I've been looking into surplus aircraft dc generators. I will keep a bank of batteries outside the house in a protected area and feed either 12 or 24 volts onto my existing dc circuit. Right now it has 12 incandescent bulbs, but LED.... here we come. I don't even need an inverter.

I'm still trying to figure out how much HP my 14' blade will capture (I think around 75 @ 30mph?), so I can determine if I can spin the generator at the right rpm. i.e. I don't want anything so large that if my batteries are down, the thing can move.